on the immigration issue, obviously, the pressure on this from immigration reform advocates is not the sort of thing that gets a lot of credit in the beltway, but i think it's very emotionally compelling stuff that they've been doing, including a lot of personal pressure on leaders like john boehner. and john boehner says he wants to find a way to do immigration reform. he had had this demand that it couldn't be comprehensive, it had to be piecemeal. democrats now agree to that. do you have any sense for whether he's just blowing smoke or whether he does actually expect that to happen? >> i think he'd rather see it happen than not happen, but i don't think it's a huge deal to him. you can sort of take it or leave it. come january, and increasingly in february and march, a lot of the key filing deadlines for tea party challengers to get on the ballot pass, so that means you're going to have a lot of house republicans who up until now have been unwilling to do anything on immigration because they don't want to draw a primary challenger, but very soon, it will be impossible for there to b